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B2B Content: Driving Sales, Renewals & Repeat Purchases
Matt Heinz
President, Heinz Marketing Inc
[email protected] @heinzmarketing
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Housekeeping
• Copy of this deck
• Offers for you– Successful Selling– The Modern Marketer’s Field Guide– Content Marketing Best Practices Guide
• Give me a business card noting what you want…– It’s that simple…
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One hour in one sentence
“Sell the hole, not the drill”
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People & problems, not products
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What do customers care about?
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The buying progression
SolutionProblem/Pain
Objective/Outcome
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Prospect Engagement Funnel
Active Sales CycleChannels: CRM, 1:1
Goal: Sell
New Customer
Drip MarketingChannels: Email Newsletters, CRM System
Goal: Drive Active Prospects
Network / Open CommunityChannels: Twitter, Facebook, Blog, LinkedIn
Goal: Drive Registration
Network-exclusive access to contentValue-added special offersDiscovery eventsWhite papers, top ten tips, etc.
Testimonials, Success StoriesProfile-Specific MessagesNew product/service offers
Referral & Tell-a-Friend OffersNetwork / Community Invites
New Opportunity Alerts1:1 with Existing CustomerIn-Market Events
Next Step Accelerator Ideas
Customer Targets (based on persona profiles)
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Marketing plan in 5 questions
1. What/who are your targets?
2. What do they care about? What outcome are they seeking?
3. Where do you find them?
4. What or who influences them?
5. How do they want to engage and (eventually) buy?
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Your customers
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Opportunity Stages
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Custom messages by role
Audience Drivers Pain Points Value Propositions (bullet points) Key Messages
Vertical #1
CEO
IT/CIO
CFO
CMO
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Content filters
• Sales stage
• Primary decision-maker
• Objections/obstacles
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Three types of content
1.Proactive
2.Reactive
3.Participatory
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Planning content
Theme 1
Week 1
Theme 2
Theme 3
Theme 4
Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
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Editorial calendar example
Market LeaderQ2 2010 Editorial Calendar
Week of May 3 Week of May 10 Week of May 17 Week of May 24 Week of May 31 Week of June Week of June 14 Week of June 21 Week of June 28Corporate ThemeContent ThemeCompany News (PR) Fiji Release Leading RE free trial Gathering of Eagles
Keynote Recap200th MLS
Industry Calendar Mid-year NARBroker Ops (Bob) Agent productivity tools -
what's recommended, what's working (blog, AR)
Creating a customer-centric brokerage (blog)
Top 10 reasons why brokers should care about social media (blog, AR)
12 ways to motivate, excite and retain your agents (blog)
Broker LinkedIn Group Questions What productivity tools are your agents using? Any that have been adopted across the brokerage?
What does customer-centric mean at your brokerage? What are your best practices around this?
How many conferences to do you attend each year? Which are your favorites and why?
What is your brokerage doing with social media? Can you measure specific new business from these investments?
How has business been since the home-buyer credit expired? What new promotions have you instituted to replace it?
What are your best practices for motivating, exciting and retaining your agents?
What is your brokerage doing to encourage and facilitate teamwork and resource sharing?
How much training do you provide your agents? What topics do you focus on?
Leadership (Ian) The best customer service advice I ever received (blog)
Early listing season observations (blog)
Why listings matter even in a buyers market (blog)
Attracting & recruiting agents (blog)
Agents & Teams (Scott) How to share best practices across your team (blog, AR)
Team collaboration best practices (blog, AR)
How to be more efficient when you don't always share the same workspace (blog, AR)
Combining resources across a team to increase marketing impact (blog, AR)
Sales & Marketing Advice (anon) Five seller appeasement strategies that won't break the bank (blog, AR)
Seller marketing tips from real estate veterans (blog, AR)
Best practices for listing presentations (blog, AR)
Search & Web Tips (Thad) How to increase your Twitter followers (blog, AR)
Why your Web domain is so important (and why it's not) (blog, AR)
How to be immediately responsive to your Web leads (blog, AR)
How to help local buyers/sellers find your Web site (blog, AR)
Using social media to market your listings (blog, AR)
Market Leader Voices
Five Ways to be a Market Leader (Video)
5 ways to improve your search results (Thad)
5 ways to build a business within a business (Ian)
5 ways to instantly improve your customer
service (Scott)
TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD
Ian's Leadership Videos Five Characteristics of a Successful Real Estate Business
Building a Customer-Centric Brokerage
Why Lead Management Matters (and why it's often ignored)
Knowing when technology is important, and when it's not
Bringing it all together to grow your business
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Guest Posts: Broker Web site success stories (pull from Exit customers)
Guest Posts: Best customer service you ever gave or received Guest Posts: Tips and Tricks to Establish Yourself as the Market Leader
Spring Season Heats Up Are you growing your market share?
Q2May June
New Vision for Real Estate Industry
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Five common content marketing mistakes
1. Not having a plan up front
2. Writing for the company instead of the customer
3. Not encouraging and participating in two-way communication
4. Not promoting, aggregating and curating great content from others
5. Only producing written content
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Repurposing
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How to create more content
• Write more ideas down
• Keep a single, ongoing list of those ideas
• Ideas, then outlines, then drafts
• Write ahead of time
• Use guest contributors
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10 sources of content inspiration
1. Customer questions
2. Stuff you read
3. People you disagree with
4. Your customer-facing teams
5. Trade press
6. Conferences, panels & Webinars
7. Twitter hashtags
8. LinkedIn Answers
9. The news
10.Things you see that are dumb
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Getting sales to use your content
1. How does it help them make money?
2. Get sales leadership to buy-in first
3. Show examples of how it works
4. Teach, train, launch, reinforce, measure & celebrate
5. Create systems that make it easy